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A HARVARD YEARBOOK
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Henry James 1863
The brilliant authority on the laws of human nature had little interest in torts and misdemeanors during his 1862-63 stay at Harvard Law School, but did kick off his writing career with magazine contributions. |
Tommy Lee Jones '69
The Academy Award-winning hunter of fugitives roomed with Al Gore, graduated
cum laude, and said he's grateful to Harvard for "cultivating
my conscience." |
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Jack Lemmon '47
Two-time
Academy Award winner Lemmon was a war service sciences concentrator
who was also vice president of the Dramatic Club in 1944, having starred
in The Playboy of the Western World. |
Yo-Yo Ma '76
In addition to his 1976 AB, the internationally acclaimed cellist won an honorary doctorate in music from Harvard in 1991. He returned in 1993 for a benefit concert to help Phillips Brooks House and The Family Center Inc.
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Norman
Mailer '43
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author actually concentrated in engineering sciences while at Harvard. His literary interests were well-represented, however, in his activities as a member of the Advocate's literary board. |
Montana Miller '96
Author, mime, daredevil, Miller went from the flying trapeze to the Crimson diving team to Acapulco, Mexico, where she was among the first women to dive from the jagged cliffs into the wild Pacific.
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Ralph Nader LLB '58
The consumer rights crusader began campaigning against the auto industry after seeing an accident on the way to Harvard Law School in 1955. He wrote a paper on unsafe automobile design and then an article for the Harvard Law Review.
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William Rehnquist AM '50
Armed with degrees from Harvard and Stanford, the future chief justice drove through a snowstorm from Wisconsin to D.C. in a Studebaker to clerk for Justice Robert H. Jackson and get his first taste of Supreme Court life in 1952. |
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David Rockefeller '36
Before embarking
on a career in which he eventually became chief executive officer of Chase Manhattan Bank, Rockefeller dabbled in journalism as a member of The Crimson board – the Business Board, of course. |
Elisabeth Shue '86
The actress starred
with Ralph Macchio in The Karate Kid before entering Harvard, and continued to act during her years here. She received her degree in 2000. |
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Mira Sorvino '89
The Oscar-winning
actress majored in Chinese while at Harvard and lived in Beijing for a year before deciding to focus all her energy on acting. |
John Updike '54
The prize-winning
author was already prolific in college, writing most of each issue of the Lampoon, of which he was president. The yearbook sums up: "Not all the issues were bad." |
